Hey Guys, I want to start live streaming customers orders being printed.I have a Flashforge Creator Pro and was wondering if Octoprint would work? Can I stream the live video feed to youtube or to my website using Octoprint? Any Suggestions would be great!
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Hey @Johnnyo1012, feel free to browse through other users’ opinions in the Octoprint community. There are heaps of good reviews! Hope this helps
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gaehl
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I don’t think it can go to youtube directly but I have uploaded a timelapse of prints after they finish before and you could forward the screaming port through http://<octoprint_IP>:8080 has links for the streaming URLs.
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You can’t really stream since there is not a video rendered until after the print finishes. I think the PI USB / WiFi chip is going to be totally overwhelmed on anything but the PI 3, I could not have a print running and watch the feed locally in octoprint without overwhelming a PI2.
You can pretty easily have it upload the timelapse automatically after the print using events. I did this for about 8 months and found that nobody really cared, but it is easy to set up and works.
Behind the scenes octoprint uses mjpegstreamer if you want to be more “live” your best bet is probably to push the timelapse images up to the cloud as they are created and then assemble them into a MP4 video via something like ffmpeg. I don’t know if youtube has a timelapse streaming type that accepts images instead of video files, but that is what you would need to “stream” the timelapse since you won’t have a video file until the end of the print.
Thank You, I’ll look into it.
